Necktie-holding collar-button.



No. sszsas. Patented Nov. 26, I9Ol. c. E. BELL.

NEOKTIE HOLDING COLLAR BUTTON.

(Application filed Apr. 24, 1901.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES E. BELL, Off-TERRA ALTA, WEST VIRGINIA.

NECKTlE-HOLDING COLLAR-BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 687,593, dated November 26, 1901. Application filed April 24, 1901. Serial No. 57,165. (N0 111011933) To all whom itmrty concern:

Be itknown that 1, CHARLES E. BELL, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Terra Alta, county of Preston, State of West Virginia, have invented certain new and usefullrnprovements in Necktie-Holding Collar-Buttons, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings,.in which- Figure l is a perspective view, Fig. 2 a side elevation, and Fig. 3 a sectional View on the line 3 3, of a button embodying my invention.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple and easily-made button that shall not only subserve the usual function of securing the collar to the collar-band of the shirt, but will also afford a secure holder or clamp for the necktie, as more fully hereinafter set forth.

Referring to the drawings by reference-letters, a designates the usual back of the button, and projecting centrally from the back is the usual shank b; but instead of the usual circular rounded head on the shank I employ a head portion which is constructed of a bar a, standing at right angles to the shank and having its upper end bent over to form a spring-tongue d, which extends nearly to the lower end of the main bar and lies parallel with the face thereof, forming a narrow slot 6. The lower end of the bar 0 is provided with an enlargement or head f, the outer upper face of which is beveled off at c which beveled face, in conjunction with the free end of the tongue, forms a throat or passage leading into the slot 6. The adjacent faces of tongue (1 and bar 0 are approximately flat, while their outer faces, aswell as the head f and the bend at the upper end of the bar, are rounded to facilitate the insertion and removal of the device into and out of the buttonholes.

It will be observed that after the button is inserted in the shirt-band and the collar is buttoned thereto a convenient part of the band of the necktie may be slipped into the slot e through the throat and will be thereby securely held and prevented fromriding up on the collar. It will be noted that the tongue is prevented from catching into the edges of the buttonholes during the act of inserting the device by the head or knob f, which serves as a guard for the end of the tongue. This also brings the entrance of the throat on the front face of the head portion of the button, where the necktie-band may be the more readily inserted and withdrawn.

It will be noted that the head f projects forward from the face of bar 0 far enough to come substantially flush with the front faceof the tongue.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to obtain by Letters Patent, is

A necktie-holding collar-button, compris ing a back, a shank, and a head portion consisting of a bar attached to the shank at right angles thereto and having a forward-projecting rounded knob formed on its lower end and a tongue on its upper end, said tongue extending down in front of the main bar and terminating short of the forward-projecting part of knob, thereby forming a band-receiving slot with an entrance thereto in the front side of the head portion.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature, in the presence of two witnesses, this 18th day of April, 1901.

. CHARLES E. BELL.

Witnesses:

W. R. MCGLANAHAN, CLYDE F. CRANE. 

